Animal sounds

Animals make more or less the same sounds around the world, however those sounds are written in different ways in each language. The ways they are written reflect the ways people hear those sounds and represent them in writing.

Animal sounds

Why do animals make different songs in different languages?

Links

Animal sounds from around the world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linguistic_onomatopoeias#Animal_sounds
https://www.boredpanda.com/animal-sounds-different-languages-james-chapman/?media_id=animal-sounds-in-different-languages-james-chapman-4
http://www.daltai.com/discus/messages/12465/11445.html?1045840880
https://word.tips/dogs-cats-language-map/

Multilingual pages

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